Legal News

Retired Indiana Chief Justice Randall Shepard will present the final findings and recommendations of the American Bar Association
Task Force on the Future of Legal Education to the ABA House of Delegates Monday.

An Indiana man convicted of stealing the Social Security numbers of more than 10 people must be sentenced to less time in
prison because of a recent Supreme Court of the United States decision, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a five-page
opinion Friday.

A federal judge Thursday affirmed a ruling that the Indianapolis-based 21st Amendment package liquor store chain is not entitled
to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging Indiana’s law prohibiting convenience and grocery stores from selling
cold beer.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana will host a dramatic interpretation performance of the Indianapolis
Public Schools’ historic desegregation and busing case as part of February’s Black History Month Celebration.

A federal court in South Bend rightfully rejected a civil rights claim brought by a man shot by state troopers trying to serve
a warrant who found themselves in a six-hour armed standoff, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

The Indiana Supreme Court held Thursday that for-profit, private company Veolia Water is not entitled to common law sovereign
immunity from liability for damages resulting from a fire that destroyed an Indianapolis Texas Roadhouse restaurant in 2010.

A federal magistrate in Hammond has ruled there were no violations of the Indiana Professional Rules of Conduct when defense
counsel interviewed a potential witness in preparation for trial after discovery had closed.

A former administrative law judge with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission has been reprimanded by the Indiana Supreme
Court, which ruled this week that a harsher sanction was unwarranted because he’d already been punished enough for seeking
a job with Duke Energy while making rulings concerning the utility.

The Indiana Court of Appeals rejected a man’s claim that his lifetime suspension of driving privileges is cruel and
unusual punishment, upholding the suspension. They held the suspension is not punitive.

Acknowledging that the state is correct when it claims the Indiana Court of Appeals relied on the wrong Supreme Court decision
in affirming the denial of a petition for post-conviction relief, the appellate court issued a new opinion Wednesday.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed summary judgment for the City of Indianapolis in two lawsuits brought by dozens
of black police officers and firefighters over the examination process used by the city for promotions.

The Indiana Court of Appeals Tuesday adopted the “majority approach” in a waiver of subrogation issue and concluded a southern
Indiana county waived its right to subrogate any and all claims covered by its property insurance. Jefferson County sued contractors
after its courthouse caught fire during renovations in 2009.

U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett announced Tuesday that his office has filed a nine-count federal indictment against an Indianapolis
man for human trafficking. These are first-of-a-kind charges in Indiana, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in
the Southern District of Indiana.

All locations of the United States District Court, Bankruptcy Court and Probation Office for the Southern District of Indiana
will delay opening until noon local time. The delayed schedule is due to the winter storm approaching Indiana Tuesday evening.

The Indiana General Assembly has adjourned for the week after working quickly to move bills out of the House of Representatives
and Senate by their respective deadlines. The legislators also kept an eye on a winter storm heading toward Indiana Tuesday.

A man who wanted to protest a proposed United Nations arms treaty on Indianapolis’ Monument Circle in 2012 but was kicked
off the property because of a lack of permit was victorious in the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday.

Noting that the statute is ambiguous, the Indiana Court of Appeals found the Indiana Public Retirement System’s longtime
use of a formula to calculate the disability benefits of a police officer shot while in the line of duty to be reasonable.

Based on evidence that a mother continued to have extensive problems with drugs and violent relationships with her children’s
fathers, the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the determination that a woman’s two young children were children in
need of services.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday affirmed the 60-month sentence imposed on a convicted felon prohibited from possessing
a gun who sold the weapon to a man who was also prohibited from possessing a gun. The judges held that the District Court
properly increased Darnell Jackson’s offense level because he committed separate offenses.